All 16 Uses of
indicate
in
Babbitt
- It was a pansy-embroidered trifle which always hung there to indicate that the Babbitts were in the best Floral Heights society.†
Chpt 1 *
- His friends, she indicated, were "disgusting imitation sports, and horrid little shrieking ignorant girls."†
Chpt 2
- …here, Gribble, I'm awfully afraid if we go on shilly-shallying like this we'll just naturally lose the Allen sale, I had Allen up on carpet day before yesterday and got right down to cases and think I can assure you—uh, uh, no, change that: all my experience indicates he is all right, means to do business, looked into his financial record which is fine—that sentence seems to be a little balled up, Miss McGoun; make a couple sentences out of it if you have to, period, new paragraph.†
Chpt 3
- All my experience indicates that he means to do business.†
Chpt 3
- He advised Conrad Lyte to purchase this lot, for eleven thousand dollars, though an appraisal on a basis of rents did not indicate its value as above nine thousand.†
Chpt 4
- In the city of Zenith, in the barbarous twentieth century, a family's motor indicated its social rank as precisely as the grades of the peerage determined the rank of an English family—indeed, more precisely, considering the opinion of old county families upon newly created brewery barons and woolen-mill viscounts.†
Chpt 6
- Nothing in motoring or real estate had indicated what a Solid Citizen and Regular Fellow ought to think about culture by mail.†
Chpt 6
- Hanson answered by jerking his head to indicate the entrance to the back room, and strolled away.†
Chpt 8
- He patted Louetta's hand, to indicate that he hadn't meant anything improper by squeezing it, and demanded of Frink, "Say, see if you can get old Dant' to spiel us some of his poetry.†
Chpt 9
- The lights were switched on; the women sat on the fronts of their chairs in that determined suspense whereby a wife indicates that as soon as the present speaker has finished, she is going to remark brightly to her husband, "Well, dear, I think per-HAPS it's about time for us to be saying good-night."†
Chpt 9
- They went profoundly into the science of business, and indicated that the purpose of manufacturing a plow or a brick was so that it might be sold.†
Chpt 10
- The porter indicated that he knew Babbitt was used to a man-servant; he held the ends of Babbitt's trousers, that the beautifully sponged garment might not be soiled, filled the bowl in the private washroom, and waited with a towel.†
Chpt 13
- When she had firmly returned him to his group, he remembered, by a connection quite untraceable, that his mother's mother had been Scotch, and with head thrown back, eyes closed, wide mouth indicating ecstasy, he sang, very slowly and richly, "Loch Lomond."†
Chpt 13
- Now and then a reporter was present at one of his meetings, and the headlines (though they were not very large) indicated that George F. Babbitt had addressed Cheering Throng, and Distinguished Man of Affairs had pointed out the Fallacies of Doane.†
Chpt 14
- When I remind you that we have one motor car for every five and seven-eighths persons in the city, then I give a rock-ribbed practical indication of the kind of progress and braininess which is synonymous with the name Zenith!†
Chpt 14
- They both laughed in a manner which indicated that of course he didn't mean it.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(indicate) to show (point out, demonstrate, express, or suggest)editor's notes: The meaning of suggest is less common, but not unusual--especially in the past tense in medicine. For example, "Medication is indicated for someone with her blood pressure."
The form, indicator can refer to many different kinds of things including intentional signals (such as a turn indicator), gauges (such as one that indicates pressure), or a measurement (such as an economic or chemical indicator).